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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
few interviews. I consulted many experts, including a speech coach who worked with me to fine-tune my questions. Fortunately, I also learned a lot on the job. By the time I got to my last interview, with Lady Margaret Thatcher, I'd had a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
via the city’s Citizens Connect app were “closed” without a resolution. It is a balancing act between making residents feel their concerns are heard and helping them understand the process the city uses to prioritize snow removal given... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1969 Born, Mt. Pleasant, Texas 1991 Earns BS, Political Science, US Air Force Academy 1995 Awarded Doctorate, Politics, Oxford University 1996 Completes Flight School as a helicopter... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
the most experienced voices at HBS—Bill George, Krishna Palepu, Rakesh Khurana, and Lorsch himself—to address the challenges of governance and the role of corporate boards in wrestling with critical issues like CEO performance and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
source of good in a community that is struggling. We knew our consumers would want to learn about what goes on at a farm where we get our potatoes. Consumers ask us all the time about our food sources.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
important work by John Wennberg and his colleagues at Dartmouth. This was the last piece of the puzzle for us in truly understanding the problem. We have known for a long time that U.S. health care is high... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
experiencing,” says Amabile, who gathered and analyzed the data with the help of HBS research associates and doctoral students, ultimately writing The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
having the computer choose the right answer. But in Jeopardy! there were roughly 2,500 types of questions, and within each type, thousands of different words or phrases that might hold the clue to the answer. “Not knowing where to start, we started everywhere,”... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
or annually? I think it will go the other way. We will get to a point where some performance measures — like sales or orders — are reported daily. Many people argue that this will increase volatility. I suggest the opposite. Once the market gets View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 22 Aug 2016
- News
Working for a Faster, Safer Internet
Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009) is CEO of CloudFlare, a web performance and security company. In this interview, she talks about the origin of the company while she was a student at HBS, and the impact it is having. “Harvard does a lot of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
mobile services in Delhi and in time became India’s largest telecom company. Then, looking overseas for new markets, Mittal decided on Africa, where mobile penetration is still only about 40 percent, and 60 percent of the continent’s 1... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
and not 12- to 17-year-olds, the study clearly shows that cigarette advertising is significantly related to youth, but not young adult, readership. King and his colleagues conclude that the study can be used as an important tool in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
cases explore how the chief executive found himself torn between, on the one hand, a deep-seated cultural code of ethics emphasizing loyalty to family and friends and, on the other, a desire to do what was needed to build a world-class company. "Going back to the View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing or able to invest their... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
acquired by RJF, giving him his initial stake in the company. Four years later, James's father named him CEO, a position he embraced for the next 40 years. The early years leading RJF were not easy. By that time James had married his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
$16 billion. On a recent trip to the firm’s New York offices, William Fung, executive deputy chairman, took time out to talk about past challenges and the brothers’ unique approach to managing the company. When you and Victor returned to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial
spiritual home of Russian Orthodoxy. In 1988 President Ronald Reagan visited the St. Danilov Monastery, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev used the occasion to inquire about the bells’ return. But nothing came of the idea. More than a... View Details